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We recently announced the transition from Play4Free to Origin Free To Play—where we bring the extensive free-to-play library under the Origin umbrella. Now Origin is your single destination for paid downloadable PC games and free-to-play games alike; not only are we continually evolving and adding paid titles to the Origin catalog, but we’re also adding new free-to-play titles to the service. Korean developer SmileGate’s popular online shooter CrossFire premieres as the first partner title in the expanded Origin Free To Play library with regional versions for North & South America and Europe.

Join the massively multiplayer global race in Need For Speed World. Drive an expansive roster of the hottest cars as you compete against your friends and the cops, hunt for Treasure Gems, or customize your ride with a nearly endless variety of paint jobs and liveries.

Remember when “card game” used to mean either something as innocent as gin rummy or as cutthroat as poker? Then, thanks to a little game called Magic: The Gathering, playing cards took on a more strategic role-playing flavor, and instead of baseball players, gamers were suddenly trading spells and creatures. If you’re looking for your collect-and-trade-cards-to-use-them-in-a-fantasy-setting fix, then we’ve got just that in our Origin Free To Play catalog: Battleforge.

We’ve already mentioned how you have both Battlefield Heroes, and even the original Battlefield 1942, to get your shooter fix for free. But what if you want something a bit more serious than Battlefield Heroes, or more contemporary (in terms of both setting and technology) than Battlefield 1942? That’s where this week’s recommendation from our free games library, Battlefield Play4Free (or BFP4F), comes in.

The multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre can be a bit intimidating. The most famous ones, such as DOTA or League of Legends, require you to have a good grasp of some arcane and technical rules and mechanics. If you’ve never played before and you try to jump right in to a match in either title, you’re likely to not only lose the match, but get yelled at for being the reason your team lost. At Origin, we offer our own take on the genre with another selection from our free-to-play library: Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes.

Earlier we wrote about Lord of Ultima as a way to get your deep strategy game fix for free. Similarly, if you’re looking for a faster real-time strategy (RTS) game to play without spending any money upfront, then you should check out Command & Conquer: Tiberium Alliances from our extensive free games library.

We’ll admit it: when there’s a little bit of downtime at the office, we sneak off to play around with some browser-based games. Though, these tend to be superficial games that focused mostly on endless clicking without depth. For those of you who prefer strategy games with a bit more depth, you should look into one game from our extensive free games library: Lord of Ultima—a deeper strategic take on the beloved Ultima franchise.

Ten years ago, a small studio known as Digital Illusions CE released Battlefield 1942, a first-person shooter that stood out–even among titans of the genre such as Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and Unreal Tournament 2003–due to its impressive combination of vehicles, infantry, and WWII action gameplay.